Word Perfect to Microsoft word in Office 2003

[trigger136]

I start a document in Word perfect (Corell) and then e-mail it to my home and
open it in MS Office word 2003. I make changes and save under the same name.
Often the whole document just goes away and I can not find it even in
search. Sometimes the changes made in Office 2003 word just disappear. I
have contact Dell and they said to search for; *.RFT for rich text file, but
no luck and I am NOT a computer genuis, so any ideas out there? This is for
work and it has become critical.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You should be searching for *.rtf (not *.rft); perhaps that will help,
though I seriously doubt that Word would (by default) save as anything but
..doc.

 

[TF]

Are you saving the attachment to your local hard disk BEFORE making these
edits?



:I start a document in Word perfect (Corell) and then e-mail it to my home
and
: open it in MS Office word 2003. I make changes and save under the same
name.
: Often the whole document just goes away and I can not find it even in
: search. Sometimes the changes made in Office 2003 word just disappear. I
: have contact Dell and they said to search for; *.RFT for rich text file,
but
: no luck and I am NOT a computer genuis, so any ideas out there? This is
for
: work and it has become critical.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If you are directly opening the attachment from your email (rather than
saving to disk first and then opening from the disk copy) your changes are
being saved in a temporary file.
--
Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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